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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: in order to transmit to imaginings the appearance of
substance. For if there really was no such thing as
substance it could not be suggested--what never has
been cannot be imagined. Do you follow me?"
"I am groping," replied Carthoris dryly.
"So the essence must be substance," continued Jav.
"Komal is the essence of the All, as it were. He is
maintained by substance. He eats. He eats the real.
To be explicit, he eats the realists. That is Tario's work.
"He says that inasmuch as we maintain that we alone
are real we should, to be consistent, admit that we
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